Garment hanger guard and method of making same



May 30, 1950 H. B. TILLERY 2,510,043

GARMENT HANGER GUARD AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME Filed June 15, 1949 Evlftire Surface Covered Wtih SZiffeniny Glue,

ATTORNEY,

Patented May 30, 1950 GARMENT HANGER GUARD AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME Hubert B. Tillery, Kansas City, Mo., assignor of one-half to L. D. Iillery, Kansas City, Mo.

Application June 13, 1949, Serial No. 98,753

3 Claims. 1

My invention relates to pants guards for application to the well known wire garment hangers and it has for its object to provide a guard formed of cardboard shaped to provide a curved top portion, two side loops and a top loop, the latter being fixedly secured to the curved top portion adjacent the middle of the same to provide a double thickness of material at the place where the guard rests on the wire hanger.

Other objects will in part be obvious and in part be pointed out hereinafter.

To the attainment of the aforesaid objects and ends invention still further resides in the novel details of construction, combination and arrangement of parts, all of which will be first fully described in the following detailed description, and then be particularly pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a hanger with my invention applied to the same.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged end elevation of the same, the position of the hanger rod being indicated in dot and dash lines.

Fig. 3 is a developed view On the scale of Fig. l of a portion of the guard.

In the drawing in which like numerals and letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures, I represents the hanger of known construction and G represents the guard of my invention.

The guard is formed of a single layer of cardboard or similar stifi fibrous material as follows:

The strip is covered on one face with a substantial film or layer of stifiening glue '7 and formed into an arch 2, which constitutes the top of the guard, and two S-shaped portions whose edges 5 are glued to the underface of the arch 2 at its mid-portion, thus forming three loops 3 and 4, the loops 3 lying close together as at 8 (preferably less than the diameter of the wire rod i of the hanger) so that the guard will snap over the rod and rest on it.

The loops 3, 4, 3 are disposed in triangular relation and the lower two 3, 3 are located adjacent each other to form a passageway at 8.

One end, at least, of the guard is slotted as at 6 for convenience in fitting the guard to the hanger.

The glue 1 not only serves to stick the top portions of the loop 4' to the arch 2 to reinforce the arch at the middle thereof but as the glue covers the entire inner surface of the guard it will, when dry, stiffen the cardboard so that it will hold its shape at all times.

The weight of a, pair of pants put over the guard will cause the loops 3 to contact each other and thereby prevent bending of the arch 2 out of shape.

Since the mid-portion of the arch 2 is of double thickness it is of less resiliency than the remainder or sides of the arch and thus prevents the formation of a sharp bend where the guard rests on the hanger rod.

Other advantages will no doubt be evident to those skilled in the art.

What I claim is:

l. A guard for garment hangers having a rod, said guard comprising a single thickness of material and including a top arch merging with two s-shaped portions the free edges of which lie together beneath the mid-portion of the arch and are fixedly secured to the same, said S-shaped portions in combination with the arch portion comprising a center loop and two side loops.

2. A guard for garment hangers having a rod, said guard comprising a single thickness of material and including a top arch merging with two S-shaped portions the free edges of which lies together beneath the mid-portion of the arch and are fixedly secured to the same, said S-shaped portions in combination with the arch portion comprising a center loop and two side loops, substantially the entire unexposed face of said material being covered with stiffening glue.

3. The method of making a hanger guard which comprises applying a film of stiffening glue to one surface of a strip of cardboard or the like, bending the strip to form. a central arch and two S-shaped side portions, bringing the side edges of the strip together and gluing them to and beneath the central, portion of the arch thereby forming three loops in triangular relation to each other, two of the loops having adjacent portions to form a passageway into the third or top loop.

HUBERT B. TILLERY.

No references cited. 

